Interventions for Chronic Kidney Disease

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Age Cohort: 60+ years
Health Promotion Disease Prevention Diagnostic Curative Rehabilitative Palliative
Community Level
  • Educate community members on measures to prevent kidney injuries and infections by avoiding excessive dehydration, misuse of drugs and trauma
  • Adequate hydration,
  • Avoid nephrotoxic medicines and traditional herbs
  • Early treatment seeking for malaria and other infections
  • Keep drugs and harmful substances in safe place
  • Proper follow-up and treatment compliance for chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension, etc.
  • Recognition of renal diseases signs and symptoms
  • Exercise, healthy weight
  • Appropriate salt and protein intake
  • Smoking cessation
  • Protein restriction
  • Immediate transfer CKD cases to a higher-level health care facility
  • Home based renal rehabilitation
  • Emotional, social, spiritual assessment and support based on cultural needs, values and preferences of patients and families
Primary Care
  • Educate community members on measures to prevent kidney injuries and infections by avoiding excessive dehydration, misuse of drugs and trauma
  • Avoid nephrotoxic medicines and traditional herbs
  • Proper control of chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension, etc.
  • History
  • Physical examination
  • Complete blood count
  • Urine protein test
  • Therapeutic life modification: exercise, healthy weight, Smoking cessation
  • Appropriate salt and protein intake
  • Antihypertensive medications (renin-angiotensin inhibitors)
  • Glycaemic control
  • Smoking cessation
  • Protein restriction
  • Correct anaemia
  • Renal rehabilitation
  • Emotional, social, spiritual assessment and support based on cultural needs, values and preferences of patients and families
Referral Facility: General
  • Patient education on hypertensive and diabetic patients about the symptoms and signs of CKD
  • Avoid nephrotoxic drugs
  • Proper control of chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension, etc.
  • History
  • Physical examination
  • Complete blood count
  • Basic metabolic panel
  • Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) test
  • Urine protein test
  • X-ray
  • Ultra sound
  • Treat reversible causes of CKD
  • Smoking cessation
  • Protein restriction
  • Control Hypertension
  • Control proteinuria
  • Control hyperlipidaemia
  • Control metabolic acidosis
  • Correct anaemia
  • Renal rehabilitation
  • Emotional, social, spiritual assessment and support based on cultural needs, values and preferences of patients and families
Referral Facility: Specialist
  • Patient education on hypertensive and diabetic patients about the symptoms and signs of CKD
  • History
  • Physical examination
  • Complete blood count
  • Basic metabolic panel
  • X-ray,
  • Ultra sound
  • Computed tomography (CT)
  • Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
  • Haemodialysis
  • Peritoneal dialysis
  • Kidney transplantation (living or deceased donor)
  • Renal rehabilitation
  • Emotional, social, spiritual assessment and support based on cultural needs, values and preferences of patients and families
 
Age Cohort: 12 - 24 years
Health Promotion Disease Prevention Diagnostic Curative Rehabilitative Palliative
Community Level
  • Educate community members on measures to prevent kidney injuries and infections by avoiding excessive dehydration, misuse of drugs and trauma
  • Adequate hydration,
  • Avoid nephrotoxic medicines and traditional herbs
  • Early treatment seeking for malaria and other infections
  • Keep drugs and harmful substances in safe place
  • Proper management and monitoring of chronic diseases like diabetes
  • Recognition of chronic kidney disease signs and symptoms
  • Encourage exercise, achieve a healthy weight and stop smoking
  • Advise on appropriate salt and protein intake
  • Smoking cessation
  • Protein restriction
  • Immediate transfer CKD cases to a higher-level health care facility
  • Home based renal rehabilitation
  • Emotional, social, spiritual assessment and support based on cultural needs, values and preferences of patients and families
  • Linkage to other relevant sectors for economic support/empowerment
Primary Care
  • Educate community members on measures to prevent kidney injuries and infections by avoiding excessive dehydration, misuse of drugs and trauma
  • Avoid nephrotoxic medicines and traditional herbs
  • Effective treatment of malaria and other infections
  • Close monitoring of chronic diseases like diabetes
  • History
  • Physical examination
  • Complete blood count
  • Urine protein test
  • Therapeutic life modification: exercise, achieve a healthy weight and stop smoking
  • Appropriate salt and protein intake
  • Antihypertensive medications (renin-angiotensin inhibitors)
  • Glycaemic control
  • Smoking cessation
  • Protein restriction
  • Renal rehabilitation: exercise training, diet & fluid management, medication & medical surveillance, education, psychological & vocational counselling
  • Emotional, social, spiritual assessment and support based on cultural needs, values and preferences of patients and families
  • Linkage to other relevant sectors for economic support/empowerment
Referral Facility: General
  • Patient education and counselling patients with congenital kidney disease, hypertensive and diabetic patients about the symptoms and signs of CKD
  • Early screening and identification of congenital kidney diseases
  • Adjusting drug doses
  • Avoid nephrotoxic drugs
  • Effective control of chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension, etc
  • History
  • Physical examination
  • Complete blood count
  • Basic metabolic panel
  • Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) test
  • Urine protein test
  • X-ray
  • Ultra sound
  • Treat reversible causes of CKD
  • Smoking cessation
  • Protein restriction
  • Control Hypertension
  • Control proteinuria
  • Control hyperlipidaemia
  • Control metabolic acidosis
  • Renal rehabilitation: exercise training, diet & fluid management, medication & medical surveillance, education, psychological & vocational counselling
  • Emotional, social, spiritual assessment and support based on cultural needs, values and preferences of patients and families
  • Linkage to other relevant sectors for economic support/empowerment
Referral Facility: Specialist
  • Patient education and counselling patients with congenital kidney disease, hypertensive and diabetic patients about the symptoms and signs of CKD
  • Early screening and identification of congenital kidney diseases
  • Adjusting drug doses
  • Avoid nephrotoxic drugs
  • Effective control of chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension, etc.
  • History
  • Physical examination
  • Complete blood count
  • Basic metabolic panel
  • X-ray
  • Ultra sound
  • Computerized tomography (CT) scan
  • Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
  • Haemodialysis
  • Peritoneal dialysis
  • Kidney transplantation (living or deceased donor)
  • Renal rehabilitation: exercise training, diet & fluid management, medication & medical surveillance, education, psychological & vocational counselling
  • Emotional, social, spiritual assessment and support based on cultural needs, values and preferences of patients and families
  • Linkage to other relevant sectors for economic support/empowerment